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This might be a backwards way of going about it, but when thinking about love songs I remember what Claudia Rankine wrote in Don’t Let Me Be Lonely:

“Define loneliness.
Yes.
It’s what we can’t do for each other.”

A Certain Combination

These are songs that balance love (and the need it answers) with everything from self-deprecative wit to arresting vulnerability. Maybe in one of them you’ll find something that plunges you into the distracting immediacy—the promise—of falling in love.